I would honestly say “Breakfast Club” and “Planes trains and Automobiles” are classics of their time, And if you look at the list of films he done it arguable that he shaped a lot of the humour of the 1980s with films like “National lampoons vacation” etc.

Getting Oscars or Oscar nominations is not necessarily proof of the quality of a film or a director, But it is proof you have “made it” with the establishment. In terms of John Hughes I feel he aimed his films at families with children and teenagers for the most part, Not for everybody all the time but entertaining nevertheless.